Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 7, 1924, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT CHARGE FORBES WITH FRAUD WY BUREAU DEAL TRUCKMEN AR UNJUST, BR. | {Continued from Page 1) am wondering if he told his assoc!- enne T also «note that they have no objections to the BARNEY GOOGLE AND SPARK PLUG = Tas WEex = LAST LEG corte *100,000 CROSS - CONTINENTAL RACE NEW YORK ©LOS Andel i HORSES Now QuanTeRED pat his report says | AT GRAND ANYON, ARIROUA } LEAVE Topsy ar WOON SHARP fhe Casper Daily Cridun = SHvux !! I Wish WED ALL x PLANNED ON STAYING CNER HERS, For A Gouna MORE DAYS - Tus GRAND CANYON 1S SUST BEGINNING To Make ME FEEL AT HOME «<. t2RRSEKSTS A Corrupt Practices Said North and South railroad as a com- Se eee 44 plete route from Miles City to Cas- ENTE S Tobe. To Have Been Preva- [oer cso ease that wo ure a tana trees menace to other more valuab’e in- SPARK PLUG e lent in Department WASHINGTON, that Charles R. Forbes Jan. 7- as dire of the rans’ bureau “wns a lead. ing actor in an established con. | railroad is not built permanency spiracy fo defraud the government, | and is unsafe for traffic. Did we} ere made by John F. York, general counsel, in his report to the senate veterans’ committee. After summarizing evidence as to OTRyan of New | e of $1,000,000 for 4% miles of He also states that our railroad. Ml anyone or do any damage one by our unsafe track or Can he say the same As to our road be- ever | nes for the trucks. Sass suse terests in this part of Wyoming, | which have, he states, a value of GVeN GETTING Tee 3 Charges | $50,000. - While we have’ only a TUROUGHOUT UNITED STaTES AND ENGLAND 2 SOME sEenons GING SPARK PLUGS SLICUT EDGE, -_— ix’ cara tls ts Rain = hospital contracts and other opera-|ing unsafe for traffic I would like tions of the bureau, O’Ryan declared] to call his attention to the stories that “further investigation by the de-| of September and October when we i } partment of justice, following leads/ran trains dai'y and on time. Did SKEEZIX COME developed by this investigation, |the other trainy in this part of the OVER TO JEAN'S AN’ should furnish other instances of| country dé so? The gentleman's PLAV HOUSE. JEAN corrupt actions negotiated by |knoweldge of what. constitutes a i trans eral O’Ryan said, “it clusively established the testi mony of witnesses by documentary evidence, and by borative effects of n stances that were broug fraud and corruption exis bureau One conspiracy to which Forbes was charged by O'Ryan with b @ party, was “that developed, having for its object the award by the direc . th How does this association know Sot" )t0 “favored \. contractors. of cc we have made no definite as tracts for the construction of hosp! ance) cuvcur ideielall weindicer: tals.” Others named as partiés were| xo, the'r information I wish to @. B. Hurley of Tacoma, Washine-| state that we have to those who ton; J. W. Thompson. a St# Louis] are entitled to know. Another mat- contractor: the late James W. Black.| ter I can't quite get is the state- of Chicago, and s H. Mort'mer,| ment that we are detriment to the t | the ted in the fe railroad is Mmited but that mat- r will be settled at the hearing ore the interstate board. We | know where he stands and welcome an Investigation at any and all/ times by people who are competent | to judge. As to our conditions in | spring, possibly the gentlemen e not seen our spring program. | will take care of our track and will be safe at a’l times as it has} so far under the most adverse ; conditions, BE MAMMA, SKEEZIX BE PAPA TO of Philadelphia, the chief witnoms) city and that we do not contribute against Fort to the welfare of the business inter- O'Byan declared that “a specific ces, ce last June we have spent Sane of the gic re wes more than $100,000 and for the com- ; testimony and exhibits affecting the | (nce tnves thee saat ta teldeing ecessary [Nuisances abe ormand s auiteur oots Fost award of the contract for the founda-| the Platte, building tracks, round a tion of the hospital at Northampton, | jouse, machine shops, depot and, of Film Star Massachusetts," to the Pontiac Con-| other small buildings. . Struction Company of Detroit. Michi-| gan, a subsidiary of the then ‘Thomp:- | son and Black Company, although that company was not the lowest | bidder. | He also set forth that “after the ring of conspirators were increased | fn number by Hurley, the Hurley- | Mason Company of Tacoma secured, after advertisement for bids by the | bureau, the contract for the hospital | at American Lake, Washington, for $1,297,000 although it was not the lowest bidder. “This investigation did not attempt to develop the circumstances which enabled the Hurley-Mason Company to secure the award, O'Ryan said, “except that the cward was made ostensibly on the basis of time of completion.” With reference to Forbes’ defense at the public hearings that the con- tracts were handled by the navy and war departments. O’Ryan said For- bes’ “Policy was to attain the ob- Jects of the conspiracy, but, so far. D ) years of ratlroading this is the} ‘The decision of the supreme court Dry Representative) tri time 1 ever heard that a rail | ong’, tecision of the supreme court F. Ss th FI d road me mae baring too low | tion in the Denver district court rates. t is so silly a am won-/ and the state supreme court to un- rom Sou AYER | irring that Senators LaFollette, | seat Hamrock. The decision Iike- — er, Brookhart, Johnson, Ship-| wise holds valid the last official act WASHINGTON, Jan. —Repre- ead and other low rate senators | of mer Governor Oliver H. sentative Hill, Republican of Mary. land, replying t to the pleat for dry enforcement madé last week by Representative Upshaw, Democrat ef Georgia, charged that violations of the Volstead act in the latter's state were flagrant and continuou! “Mr. Upshaw and his fellow Antt- Saloon Leaguers,” Representative Hill declared, “cannot enlist public | sentiment in Georgia to enforce the | Vo'stead act.” Mr. Hil! asserted that the Georgia representative was nat qualified to | speak for the “majority of the lav because “he sits in the house in «-| rect violation of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution.” We have not put any branches of | Casper business houses on our line | unless they are requested and then only sma'l yards or warehouses as branches. It is true that four or ve of the oil companies have built purs but it was done to expedite the handling of freight and will not interfere with Casper in anyway. But this matter {s camouflage on} heir port Don't worry, we are here to stay until we get ready to go south. Mr. St¥iger again displays his ignorance or faflroad matters when | he states we are guilty of conduct: | ing a rate war. We have put into effect the highest rates we were permitted to and conform to the INQUSTER ON COLORADO JO8 State Supreme Court Upholds Appointment Made By Shoup laws of the public utilties commis- sion of the state of Wyoming, and| they are exactly the same as used by the other two roads. We could | not do otherwise as a'l of our tar- iffs are filed with and sanctioned by this commission. Regarding this matter I wish to say that in my | think of this protest, I bel: e that I will send them a marked copy. It will certain'y interest them and they will get a kick cgt of | It) possibly may change their! views. | I am wondering who pays for the good roads—the trucks or the oll companies and the railroads. It might be well for the association to consider that we will have to pay taxes soon and from advance infor- mation I get they are going to be quite high. We have no complaint against the trucks or anyone else— we willl attend to our own business and only ask others to do the same. J. J. FOLEY, G. M. — ‘Who Would Have Believed! king contrast he Bell in Philadelphia? Well, it’s twepn the old and new shows Chief Harry T. Baxter, Philadelphia official, broadcasting the history of the Liberty Bell. 9 SRE DENVER, Colo., Jan. 7—The Colorado supreme court today uo- held the appointment of Patrick J. Hamrock as state civil service com- missioner. Hamrock was appoint- ed by Governor Shoup the day he- fore Shoup retired from the office of governor. Shoup, who appointed Hamrock to the position the day his tenure of office expired. The appointment was made but a short while before the inauguration of Governor William E. Sweet. One of the first official acts of Gover- nor Sweet on the day he assumed office was to appoint Mrs. Elizabeth Quereau of Denver to the position held by Hamrock. Demand was made on Hamrock to give up the office which he refused to do. Suit then was instituted in the Denver (istrict court to oust Ham- rock from the position and there he won his initial victory, the court finding in his favor. ‘The decision was appealed to the supreme cou:t by Mrs. Quereau where the decision today apparently ends the tigation. Hamrock was appointed by For- mer Governor Shoup to the position made vacant by the resignation of Edward Trounstine. ee, EXCAVATION (5 STARTED AGAIN ON TUT'S TOM Work Suspended By Carter’s Illness Is Resumed LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 7.—Howard Carter, in charge of the Tutenk- hamun exploration work, who be- came indisposed last week after the discovery of the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh in the tomb, work being sus- pended in consequence, reappeared in the valley of the Kings today and the tomb was opened again. The usual small number of privileged visitors was admitted but the doors of the shrine now are closed and the sarcophagus {s not visible. During the morning the component parts of the great frame work which supported the pall between the first and second shrines: were swathed in protective surgical bandages and re- moved to the laboratory nearby. SEEMS LIKE MINE WEVER QUIETS DOWN ;from the disabled Kyosel Maru,” said the wireless dispatch from the {President McKinley, ‘Transfer |was made at 7 a. m. without inci- CREW i SNED See The British steamship Harold Dollar, which was in distress not ‘tar distant from the Yyosei Maru, | | proceeded for Japan this morning | 5 jafter being helplessly adrift for many hours in a terrific storm. A later radio message said her rudder was not lost but that the rud- der post was gone, making it useless, Nothing but tugboats could give the | vessel any assistance, the message added, as the water on the reef where she is aground, is too shallow. at eas adv hatha Mellon Defends Proposed Tax Cut in Letter WASHINGTON, Jan, 7,—Secre- tary Mellon bolstered his argument in favor of reduction of high sur taxes on. big incomes in a letter to Senator Couzens of Michigan. Mellon cited statistics from which he deduced that the government would gain Lttle by sticking to the present system of 50 per cent tax- ation of incomes over $100,000. Such a course leads to tax avold- ance as is evidenced by the fact that there are $1,000,000,000 of whol- Japanese Vessel Left To Mercy of Waves After Rescue. SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 7—(Unit- ed Press).—Rescued in mid-Pacific from the sinking freighter Kyosei Maru which had been he'pless adrift in terrific seas for many hours, thirty officers and men, the entire completement of the ill-fated vesrél, now believed abandoned in mid-Pa- cific, were aboard the Admiral Ori- ental liner President McKinley, Captain Alvin O. Lustrie, bound for Yokohama, according to radiograms received here. News of the rescue was recetved in Seattle in a radio message from Captain Lustie which did not say whether the Kyosei foundered or still is afloat, but it is presumed by shipping men that the freighter was abandoned to her fate in the mid-Pacific storm. She had been leaking and probably was engulfed in heavy seas, p'unging to the bot-|jy tax exempt fecurities now out- tom of the ocean. standing and the loss to the gov- “Have taken aboard entire ship’s}ernment is estimated at $200,000, completement, including master | 000, he stated. 1 | Rail Arguments Are Heard Today WASHINGTON, Jan. 7—Final ar- guments on railroad consolidation began today before the Interstate Commerce Commission as the last stage in-its preparation of a plan for throwing all the roads of the country into 18 or 20 great mergers. Counsel for the New York Cen- tral, the Baltimore and Ohio, and Pennsylvania, New York state and New Jersey interests concerned in eastern consol'dations were given first opportunity to be heard, A full seven day period has been given for further discussion of tho situa- tions elsewhere in the United States. Sa'd by police investigators to haye been infatuated with mand, Horace Greer, the screen star's chauffeur, shot and perhaps fat- ally wounded Court!and 8. Dines, wealthy and twice divoreed of! man id and ex-aviator, on New Year's night at a Los Angeles house party, whens 7 Dines was entertaining Miss Normand and Fdna Purviance also a screen celebrity. This photo of Greer, who als> used the name of Joe Kelly, was taken after his arrest. Below are pictured Mabel Normand (oval) and’ Mise Purviance who would neither affirm nor deny repos:s that she was ene gaged to Dines. Greer said he went to D'ne's luxurious apartment upon command ‘of Miss Normand’s caretaker, who declared the screen ater had summoned her chauffeur by phone’ and there, accsrd'ng to police shot Dines during an altercation and its he beleved In self defense. Both women asserte ere was no provocation for the shoo! . Greer for assault to commit murder. Rie ee Central Figures in Shooting Mabel Nor- Party Leader Asks Relief ATHENS, Jan. 7.—Liberals meet- ing here yesterday for the purpose of re-clecting Venizelos as the party's leader, received a letter from the former prem'er, written in bec, urging his partisans to choose an- other chieftain. He threatened to re- sign the presidency of the assembly and “return into exile,” unless his wishes in this respect were observed. Tbe meeting, however, refused to proceed with the e’ection and sent General Danglis to interview Ven’- velos. The general returned with the promise of Venizelos that the latter would appear before the lib- erals when he regained his health to explain his reasons for declining to accept the leadership of ths party. Sew Edna Purviance, Chavlis Chap- Uns leading womin, was present at shooting 0} a Di Holy ourtland Dines in Mabel Normand, film star, whose chauffeur shot Courtland Dines, weulthy Denver man, |